DOWNY is a valid Scrabble word — 12 points
Yes. DOWNY is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 12 points in Scrabble and 12 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept DOWNY?
| Official Scrabble Players DictionaryUSA, Canada, Thailand | Valid |
|---|---|
| Official Tournament and Club Word ListUSA, Canada, Thailand | Valid |
| Collins Scrabble WordsEnglish in most countries | Valid |
| Words with FriendsZynga word list | Valid |
Word power: 32 / 100
Our own measure of how useful DOWNY is to know. It scores 12 from 5 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 4.4% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for DOWNY
No single letter turns DOWNY into another word.
How DOWNY scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in DOWNY, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| d | 1 | 4 |
| o | 1 | 8 |
| w | 1 | 2 |
| n | 1 | 6 |
| y | 1 | 2 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 98,031.
What does DOWNY mean in Scrabble?
adjective
Covered with soft, fine hair or feathers, or soft and fluffy like down.
Downy comes directly from down, the insulating layer of fine filaments found under a bird's outer plumage, and the adjective extends that image to anything with a similarly gentle, fuzzy surface. Writers apply downy to a chick fresh from the egg, to the faint bloom on a ripening peach, or to the first faint growth appearing on a young person's cheek before it coarsens with age. Beyond literal fuzz, downy also describes bedding stuffed with feather down, so a downy quilt promises comfort rather than mere appearance. The word keeps a warm, comforting association wherever it is used, literal or figurative.
How DOWNY is used
Used literally of soft fine hair, feathers or fuzz, and figuratively of anything soft and comforting.
- The downy chicks huddled together under the heat lamp.
- A downy fuzz covered the ripe peach.
- He rubbed his downy chin, too young yet to shave properly.
- She sank into the downy pillows on the guest bed.
- The duckling's downy feathers dried quickly in the sun.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of DOWNY and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Shorter words from the letters in DOWNY
Common questions about DOWNY
- Is DOWNY valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts DOWNY, where it scores 12 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is DOWNY worth?
- DOWNY is worth 12 points in Scrabble and 12 points in Words with Friends.
- What does DOWNY mean?
- Covered with soft, fine hair or feathers, or soft and fluffy like down.
- What letters can be added to DOWNY?
- No single letter can be added to DOWNY to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of DOWNY:
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